Out of curiosity, was there a process to raise that design "oddity" to someone? Is there a way in the Google mono-repo to even know who is responsible for which section?
There are 'OWNERS' files which list email addresses for directories, but anyone can contribute any piece of code. Generally, it is like a giant open source project to the eyes of a developer.
yes you can use the 'blame' feature to identify specific lines, or look in piper to see who edited a directory recently. In addition to OWNERS files.
By the time I finished maintaining numpy, I could more or less find the right person with a couple minutes poking. Again, it's one of the things that google managed to do well- a large scale code base with many developers working more or less in concert, with efficiency at scale.
